#owning

Potential home buyers have a two-step decision process. First, they determine whether they can afford to make a purchase - does their income safely cover their mortgage payment? Then they determine whether owning is a better financial choice than renting - are the costs of owning a home lower than the cost of renting it? ↗

— Mark Zandi

#better #buyers #choice #cost #costs

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#drowning #ends #helpful #man #rope

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. ↗

— John Jay Chapman

#catching #chocolate #cold #drowning #dry

Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. ↗

— Petrarch

#grace #humanity #love #love is

I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked. ↗

— Tim Robbins

#clowning #ended #feet #getting #hooked

Owning the Yankees is like owning the Mona Lisa. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#lisa #mona #owning #yankees

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books. ↗

— Martin Lewis Perl

#books #compensated #i #large #large numbers

I think back to the last thing Dave said to me and try to imagine what escaping oxygen would look like. It looks a lot like drowning. ↗

— A.S. King

#imagination

To a Vase "How do I break thee? Let me count the ways. I break thee if thou art at any height My paw can reach, when, smarting from some slight, I sulk, or have one of my crazy days. I break thee with an accidental graze Or twitch of tail, if I should take a fright. I break thee out of pure and simple spite The way I broke the jar of mayonnaise. I break thee if a bug upon thee sits. I break thee if I'm in a playful mood, And then I wrestle with the shiny bits. I break thee if I do not like my food. And if someone they shards together fits, I'll break thee once again when thou art glued. ↗

— Henry N. Beard

#elizabeth-barrett-browning #humor #art

sometimes life isn’t worth the pain. i’m going for a swim. goodbye, my love. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#drowning #romance #suicide #tattoo #teen